Apple silicon is vulnerable to side-channel speculative execution attacks "FLOP" and "SLAP"

[rkk@lemmy.world]

You will be slapped with a floppy

[xatolos@reddthat.com]

3.5 inch or 5 inch?

[kibiz0r@midwest.social]

Another day, another speculative execution attack

[homesweethomemrl@lemmy.world]

Didn't use to be.

[leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl]

i had to double check. yes. it is a SLAP with a silent d and a. what a great name.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

Oh no! We can't live without overengineered pieces of silicon made via processes more complex than anything in history, with enormous computing power being used to display our porn and cat pics. We need more performance! And we need even more complex CPUs.

Everyone is different. I could live with things from year 2005. Except they were expensive and not everyone had them. I would want people to have necessities and simple, sturdy, cheap, weak tech to fulfill their needs and nothing more. Not lack some things and have far too powerful tools for other things.

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

You know you can click that headline and read the article for more information. You don't have to live in ignorance.

[gofsckyourself@lemmy.world]

uMatrix makes this easy

[ugurcan@lemmy.world]

I have a better proposal: let’s disable JavaScript in it’s entirety so it wouldn’t require 8 gb ram and a 2 gHz multicore cpu on my mobile device that runs on battery, to send a simple ‘hello’ to my friends.

[mlg@lemmy.world]

I don't know if mac has something similar, but you can run a command on linux to list all the CPU vuln mitigations applied, and its hilarious to see on something old like a skylake or haswell with the amount of patches that have dropped since release.